Parallel database systems have to support the effective parallelization of complex queries in multi-user mode, i.e. in combination with inter-query/inter-transaction parallelism. ...
MAVIS is a dataflow visual languagefor computer vision and image processing. It features a high degree of `liveness' and compliance with user directives, providing ajexible e...
Thomas J. Olson, Nicholas G. Klop, Mark R. Hyett, ...
This paper describes a Global Computing (GC) environment, called XtremWeb-CH (XWCH). XWCH is an improved version of a GC tool called XtremWeb (XW). XWCH tries to enrich XW in orde...
One of the main problems faced by university students is deciding the right learning path based on available information such as courses, schedules and professors. In this context,...
We study the stochastic machine replenishment problem, which is a canonical special case of closed multiclass queuing systems in Markov decision theory. The problem models the sche...